"One of my profs said, 'It's over-rated, it will never take off,' " he recalled.
Many of my profs are genuinely nice people.
A fixed quota system, favoured by the likes of my colleague Prof George Williams, would exclude those parties who do not attract sufficient first preference votes.
Still, with two-decade's worth of programmes to rerun, I'll still get me fix... and no doubt my old prof will still be getting his artifacts in a twist.
My colleague Prof John Hills at the LSE in his book Good Times, Bad Times argues clearly that welfare changes have transferred income from the poorer half of households to most of the richer half, with no net effect on public finances or on the deficit.
Its pastor, the Rev. D. Z. Cofield, was my first prof in grad school and became nationally known that semester when he officiated the memorial service for legendary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
The deaths of my two lawyers, Prof Mohamed Mohamud Afrah and Abdikarin Hassan Gorod, in awful attacks on Mogadishu's courtrooms, showed how vulnerable they were.
It is widely believed that my former colleague Prof Samantha Power was fired from the Obama team not for being rude about Hillary, but for warning publicly that the US wouldn't get out of Iraq as quickly and easily as Barack imagined.
